Well Gunny trained me…. he taught me lessons I have never forgotten…. he made me find pain I thought I never would find…. He showed me that my strength came from the spark within…. and he said this over and over to every trainee from me to the present…. and it stuck!!

darn tooty!! I actually disliked him intensely while I was training back in the Middle Ages (ha) but he molded me into a good soldier… you can’t argue with his methods… I laugh now… hearing his booming voice to the recruits each year…. “Ladies and Gentlemen THIS is NOT the military… there will be pain and lots of helpings of it… if you can’t take that kind of pressure, the gates are right behind you….” the nice part each class……very very few wash out but many I suspect wished they did by the time training is complete!!